Want to get better at being on camera?
Need content for social media?
Introducing Mini Sessions by Zen Mantis!
It’s as easy as getting a haircut!
Book your 30 minute session and bring your ideas - or we’ll just ask you questions to draw out topics. Then we take the best parts and deliver high resolution, great looking, great sounding clips - ready to use!
Use the mini-session to practice being on camera
If communication is important to you, this is a great place to work on it. You get a producer to help you along the way, and the feedback of watching yourself on video is the #1 way to get better. Face your fear, work on how your message is received, and get comfortable - all while making content. Do it once. Or do it every month to continue to hone your craft and your message!
Use the mini-session for social media content
Our typical client gets about 10 soundbites from one 30 min mini session. They can be used as-is or turned into reels, used as part of a future montage, or all 3! The benefit of this approach rather than just creating with Canva / stock video / AI - it’s a real person cut from a real conversation, so you’re creating visibility, awareness, educating your customer AND building trust at the same time - so when they are ready to call, they are more likely to want to choose you and at the price you ask. They’ll feel a connection to a real person rather than just more throw away content for content’s sake.
Use the mini-session to create your profile video
We’ll have a conversation about your interests, passions, your why, and montage the best parts to make an under 60 sec “meet me” video to pin on all your socials, kinda like a video headshot!
Either way, it's the same process!
You don’t need to write a script, you don’t even need to know what to say. Just show up! You’ll be surprised at what comes out of it. We’ve filmed nearly a thousand people over 15 years in business - and working with introverts is our specialty!
Book your mini session now!
We offer mini sessions on certain dates each month. Location may vary, but are currently in the Nashville area. We plan to expand with more dates, locations, and virtual mini sessions very soon!
Standard Mini Session - $475
Includes approx half hour filming time with professional lighting, audio, HD video, simple editing, and color correction. We'll take the best moments and create either multiple clips or a montage - all ready to use.
Post Production Add-ons
Based on your particular needs and where you plan to post the videos, you may want additional editing and production. Here are some typical add-ons which can be selected after the standard mini-session has been delivered. The prices below are to help you with rough budgeting and to envision possibilities.
+ Light Production - we’ll add music, your basic logo, your name at the bottom of the screen, and a variety of stock images or footage that you provide. Starts at $250
+ Full Production - on a separate day, we’ll come to you and film custom footage to help visually tell the story, plus add in music, text, and create an animated logo. Starts at $975
+ Visibility - We’ll create a campaign on social media to get your video in front of the right people. It’s like putting your video up on a billboard! Starts at $325
+ TikTok / Reels - we’ll repurpose your videos with punchy edits and captions, vertically formatted for the short attention span platforms. Starts at $250
If you think you might need a more involved production - multiple people, locations, customer testimonials, specialty graphics - let’s set up time to have a conversation to talk through ideas and come up with the right budget! Please send an email to mike@ZenMantis.com
Book your mini session now!
We offer mini sessions on certain dates each month. Location may vary, but are currently in the Nashville area. We plan to expand with more dates, locations, and virtual mini sessions very soon!
FAQ's
How is a mini session different? The main difference between this and some of our other work is in the complexity of the editing and the production. For the mini-session videos, we’re doing simple edits. They will look and sound amazing, and the videos will be ready to use, but won’t be as “produced”. For a frame of reference, a regular shoot (not a mini session) which includes cutting back and forth between the person talking and shots of the business, music, logo animation, text, etc typically starts at $1,500 and those with multiple interviews are going to be in the $3-6k range (and larger companies with multi-day shoots can easily by $10k and up).
Can I edit these myself? Yes, you own the videos we deliver. You can chop them up, create montages, reels, add music, logos, pictures, etc using your favorite app or software. But do provide these services as well.
Why isn’t the additional editing included? Everyone comes to us for different reasons. For many, the “straight” edited videos are just what they need. There are so many platforms and strategies, it doesn’t make sense to pay for post production until you know you’ve got the right soundbites. In many ways, this is a good first step to work on getting the foundational clips to build off of down the road.
Where should I post my finished videos? Of course this depends on your specific audience and goals, but at minimum we recommend starting with YouTube. Once it’s there, the videos can easily be shared, posted elsewhere, and embedded on a website and linked to from your emails and direct messages. But, if you have time you can literally upload the same video to all of the platforms - YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn - and then upload them again turning them into TikTok’s, Instagram reels, Facebook reels, and YouTube shorts.
Do I need to write a script? No! We purposely film conversationally so you come across as natural and authentic as possible. We don’t provide a teleprompter and discourage trying to read anything pre-written verbatim. We do encourage you to prepare with a list of potential topics and talking points as conversation starters, but even that isn’t required. We recommend sticking to subject matter that you know confidently. That’s either going to be topics around your business or industry, or we’re talking about you and your story. This is not the place to act out a scripted commercial. (We can certainly help with that, but that’s not for a mini session.)
Questions? Let's set up time to talk
Please send an email to mike@ZenMantis.com
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